‘The old man and the tree’: Winner of the Monica Taylor Poetry Prize, 2024
‘300 Longwood Ave, Boston’: Winner of the NSW Poetry Prize, 2024
‘Love was almond shaped’: Winner of the Dalkey Poetry Prize, 2020
Highly commended in the Francis Ledwidge International Poetry Award, 2020
‘In the shadows‘: Winner of the Adelaide Plains Poetry Competition (open section), 2019
‘Pietà’: Second prize in the International Proverse Poetry Prize (Hong Kong), 2023
‘Power Cut’: Second prize in the Aurora Prize for Writing (Poetry), 2022
‘The Measure of Absence’: Second prize in the Poetry d’Amour Competition WA Poets Inc, Perth Poetry Festival 2022
Highly commended in the New Zealand Poetry Society International Poetry Competition, 2022
‘Priceless‘: Second prize in the Sawmillers Poetry Prize, 2022
‘If I could‘: Second prize in the South Coast Writers Centre Poetry Award, 2021
‘Still the rain kept falling‘: Second prize in the Sutherland Shire Literary Competition, 2020
‘The maid awakens at 5:00 am’: Runner-up in the Artemisia Arts Poetry Competition, 2024
‘In limbo‘: Third prize in the Proverse International Poetry Prize 2021
‘Masquerade‘: Finalist in the Microflix Festival and Awards, 2021
‘Vermeer in Boston‘: Finalist in the Stephen A. DiBiase Poetry Contest, 2021
Shortlisted in the Booranga Literary Prizes, 2019
‘Death of an emigrant’: Highly commended in the New Zealand Poetry Society International Poetry Competition, 2024
‘It never happened’: Highly commended in the Welsh Poetry Competition, 2023
‘The Powerful Owl is listed as vulnerable’: Highly commended in the Philippa Holland Award for Poetry, 2022
Highly commended in the Welsh Poetry Competition, 2022
‘The embrace’: Highly commended in the Ethel Webb Blundell Literary Awards, 2022
‘Mother and Child’: Highly commended in the Goldsmith International Poetry Competition, 2021
Shortlisted in the Bournemouth Writing Prize, 2022
‘Prayer stool’: Highly commended in the Scribes Writers ‘Poetic Licence’ Literary Award, 2019
‘Recalling Sarah’: Highly commended in the Australian Catholic University Poetry Prize, 2018
Special mention in Pangolin Poetry Prize, 2018
‘In among the ruins, love’: Commended in the WB Yeats Poetry Prize, Australia, 2022
Longlisted in the Fish poetry Prize, 2021
‘My husband’s grandfather, the jeweller’: Commended in the Woorilla Poetry Prize, 2020
‘Acquiescence’: Commended in the Woorilla Poetry Prize, 2019
‘The assignment’: Shortlisted in the Australian Catholic University Poetry Prize, 2024
‘Mirror’: Shortlisted in the Strokestown Festival International Poetry Prize, 2024
Featured in Books for Breakfast Podcast, Ireland, 25 April 2024 (Poetry Day Ireland)
‘The orphan’s pantoum’: Shortlisted in The Plough Prize, 2023
‘Power cut’: Shortlisted in the Aurora Prize for Writing, 2022
Longlisted in the Plough Writing Prize, 2022
‘As water is to mist’: Shortlisted in the Liquid Amber Poetry Prize, 2022
‘It never happened’: Shortlisted in the Plough Writing Prize, 2022
‘Thought-washing’: Shortlisted in the Bournemouth Writing Prize, 2022
‘Stages of wanting’: Shortlisted in the Australian Catholic University Poetry Prize, 2021
‘Pine nuts at lunchtime‘: Shortlisted in the Saolta Arts Poetry Competition, 2020
‘Blessed to be here’: Shortlisted in the Women Writers National Writing Competition, 2019
‘What was’: Shortlisted in the Robert Graves Poetry Prize, 2018
‘The hemline of lost memories’: Shortlisted in the Heroines Women’s Writing Prize & Anthology, 2023 — Heroines Festival & The Neo Perennial Press, 2024
‘The art of waiting’: Longlisted in the Live Canon International Poetry Prize, 2023
‘Street seasons’: Longlisted in the Segora International Poetry Competition, 2020
‘On getting my first glasses at thirteen’: Longlisted in the National Poetry Competition, UK, 2021
‘You never can tell’: Other Terrain Literary Journal, Issue 14, December 2024
‘Artist in the Aurelian Wall: A Ghazal’: Other Terrain Literary Journal, Issue 14, December 2024
‘When you buy a second-hand poetry book on eBay’: Other Terrain Literary Journal, Issue 14, December 2024
‘The old man and the tree’: takahē, New Zealand, December 2024
‘The assignment’: Faith (anthology), Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, 2024
‘Catification’: The Suburban Review, Hills Hoist Vol. 4, 31 July 2024
‘One more glowing sunset’: London Grip, June 2024
‘In among the ruins, love’: The Madrigal, Vol. 8, ‘Reminiscence’, 2024
‘A different kind of language’: Australian Classical Education Society, 2024
‘Touched by the hand of God’: StylusLit, 2024
‘It never happened’: Rochford Street Review, 2024
‘Priceless’: Brushstrokes IV: Ros Spencer Poetry Contest Anthology, 2023
‘Testing for humanity’: Brushstrokes IV: Ros Spencer Poetry Contest Anthology, 2023
‘Wordsworth was wrong’: fourW thirty-four: New Writing, ed. D Gilbey, Booranga Writers’ Centre, 2023
‘Until’: Ink Sweat & Tears, October 2023
‘Holding the upper hand’: London Grip, September 2023
‘The cardiac surgeon’s daughter dreams’: Live Encounters Poetry & Writing, August 2023
‘Ghost of the great famine’: Live Encounters Poetry & Writing, August 2023
‘A Great Silence’: Meniscus, Volume 11, Issue 1, June 2023
‘The orphan’s pantoum’: Mingled Voices 7, International Proverse Poetry Prize Anthology (Proverse Hong Kong), 2023
‘Eavesdropping’: Mingled Voices 7, International Proverse Poetry Prize Anthology (Proverse Hong Kong), 2023
republished in Poem Alone, a Rancid Idols Production, Jan 2024
‘The rift within’ (poetry collaboration with Henry Briffa): KalliopeX, Issue 4, 2023
‘Pietà’: Mingled Voices 7, International Proverse Poetry Prize Anthology (Proverse Hong Kong), 2023
Republished by the Australian Classical Education Society, 2023
Republished in the Rochford Street Review, 2024
‘Here, where poets gather’: Live Encounters, April 2023
‘The language of leaves’: The Madrigal, Issue 7, ‘Metamorphosis’, 2023
‘Heiress with the beehive hairdo’: Other Terrain Journal, Issue 11, 2023
‘What Remains’: Antipodes: Journal of the American Association of Australasian Literary Studies, Volume 35, No. 1 & 2, 2021
‘Thought-washing’: Imprint: A Collection of Short Stories and Poems Exploring Itentity, Fresher Publishing, 2022
‘Cento after Rumi’: fourW thirty-three: New Writing, ed. D Gilbey, Booranga Writers’ Centre, 2022
‘As water is to mist’: Poetry of Encounter: The Liquid Amber Prize Anthology, 2022
Republished in the Australian Poetry Anthology, Vol. 11, 2024
‘The embrace’: Brushstrokes III, Ros Spencer Poetry Contest Anthology, 2021-22
Republished in the Rochford Street Review, 2024
‘Amo, amas, amat’: Poetry d’Amour Anthology, 2022
‘If you don’t know’: Close Up: Poems on Cancer, Grief, Hope, and Healing, Orchard Lea Books, 2022
‘Admitting diagnosis’: Close Up: Poems on Cancer, Grief, Hope, and Healing, Orchard Lea Books, 2022
‘The house remembers’: Last Stanza Poetry Journal, September 2022
‘Subtext’: Quadrant, September 2022
‘Just a bag’: Live Encounters, July 2022
‘Mother and child’: Live Encounters, July 2022
‘Detritus’: Crannog Magazine, June 2022
republished in Last Stanza Poetry Journal, July 2023
‘On getting my first glasses at thirteen’: a fine line, New Zealand Poetry Society, Autumn 2022
‘You’ve got his eyes’: Tarot Poetry Journal, May 2022
‘Past and future tense’: Tarot Poetry Journal, May 2022
‘Duplicity’: Tarot Poetry Journal, May 2022
‘In the shadows’: Fevers of the Mind, May 2022
‘Street seasons’: Fevers of the Mind, April 2022
‘In limbo’: Mingled Voices 6, International Proverse Poetry Prize Anthology (Proverse Hong Kong), 2022
‘The hemline of lost memories’: Quadrant, March 2022
republished in Other Terrain Journal, Issue 11, 2023
‘The winds of our own desire’: The Madrigal, Issue 4, ‘Verity’, 2022
‘The shrug’: Appointment at 10:30, Volume 22, Pure Slush, February 2022
‘Do you wonder’: Shot Glass Journal, 2022
‘Lucifer’s fingernail’: Hecate: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Women’s Liberation, 46.1 & 2, 2020
‘El Alamein Fountain’: Hecate: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Women’s Liberation, 46.1 & 2, 2020
‘Flat Rock Gully’: Hecate: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Women’s Liberation, 46.1 & 2, 2020
‘Manly Dam’: Hecate: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Women’s Liberation, 46.1 & 2, 2020
‘The measure of absence’: Poetry d’Amour anthology, ed R van Son (WA Poets Inc), 2022
republished in Last Stanza Poetry Journal, Issue 14, October 2023
‘Three instances’: Meniscus, Volume 9, Issue 2, January 2022
‘If I could’: Legacies, South Coast Writers’ Centre, March 2021
‘Afterglow’: fourW thirty-two, anthology of selected entries (Booranga Writers’ Centre, November 2021)
‘Treading carefully’: Brushstrokes II, Ros Spencer Poetry Contest Anthology 2020–21, WA Poets Publishing, 2021
republished in Fevers of the Mind, 2022
republished in Highland Park Poetry, 2023
‘Stages of wanting’: Resilience (anthology), Australian Catholic University, Melboune, 2021
‘Waiting’: Grieve, Volume 9: Stories and Poems of Grief and Loss (anthology), Hunter Writers Centre, 2021
republished in another version under the title ‘The parting’ in Other Terrain Literary Journal, December 2024
‘Tethered’: Pigeon Review, 2021
‘Sunday Roast’: Literary Veganism: An Online Journal, 2021
‘The longest journey’: Copperfield Review Quarterly, 2021
republished in a fine line, New Zealand Poetry Society, Autumn 2023
‘Creating by substraction’: Lothlorien Poetry Journal, 2021
‘After Alexandrine, maybe’: The Ekphrastic Review, 2021
republished in Fevers of the Mind, 2022
‘A look that won’t catch on’: Not Very Quiet, 2021
‘Love was almond shaped’: Books Ireland, 2021
republished in Highland Park Poetry, 2022
republished in Australian Poetry Anthology, Vol 10 (2023)
‘Still the rain kept falling’: Lothlorien Poetry Journal, 2021
republished in The Fellowship of the Pen, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Volume 1, Jan.-Feb. 2021
Nominated for Best of the Net by Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Volume 1, Sep. 2021
‘Nature’s grand chandelier’: Lothlorien Poetry Journal, 2021
republished in The Fellowship of the Pen, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Volume 1, Jan.-Feb. 2021
‘Crime of the times‘: Burrow, Old Water Rat Publishing, 2021
‘Twenty-two years‘: Tarot, Issue 1, 2020
republished in Fevers of the Mind, 2022
republished in Rochford Street Review, 2024
‘The dry-cleaner’s daughter‘: Tarot, Issue 1, 2020
‘Burmese, past unknown’: Purrfect Poems: Poetry Anthology in Support of Cats Protection Stafford and District, Dream Well Writing Ltd, UK, 2020
‘Street Seasons‘: Vox Galvia, Galway Advertiser, 2020
republished in Fevers of the Mind, 2022
‘Not your time‘: Live Encounters Poetry & Writing, Volume 1, 11th Anniversary Edition, 2020
‘I walk on seashells‘: Live Encounters Poetry & Writing, Volume 1, 11th Anniversary Edition, 2020
republished in WordCity Monthly, Issue 5, 2021
‘Earth tremors‘: Live Encounters Poetry & Writing, Volume 1, 11th Anniversary Edition, 2020
‘The papering of distance‘: Not Very Quiet, 2020
‘Ave atqaue vale‘: Grieve: Stories and Poems of Grief and Loss, Volume 8 (anthology), Hunter Writers Centre, 2020
‘A world in waiting‘: Burrow, Old Water Rat Publishing, 2020
republished in Covid-19 Poetry Anthology, Realistic Poetry International, 2021
‘Rosedale, New Year’s Eve‘: Bluepepper, 2020
‘Porcelain leaves, the cream and the green’: FemAsia, 2020
‘Be-mused’: Backchannels No. 4, 2020
‘In defence of the slimmest of events’: Live Encounters Poetry & Writing, 2020
‘Election special’: Live Encounters Poetry & Writing, 2020
‘Matters of the heart’: Live Encounters Poetry & Writing, 2020
‘Last stop’: Live Encounters Poetry & Writing, 2020
republished in Other Terrain Journal, Issue 11, 2023
‘Stranger’: Live Encounters Poetry & Writing, 2020
‘No room for tears’: Scarlet Leaf Review, 2020
‘Destination nowhere’: Scarlet Leaf Review, 2020
republished in Mediterranean Poetry, 2020
‘The lady on the steps’: Scarlet Leaf Review, 2020
‘Vermeer in Boston’: The Ekphrastic Review, 2020
republished in Black Coffee Review, 2020
republished in The Galway Review, 2021
‘Bedsitter’: Australian Poetry Collaboration, 2019
‘Oblique angles’: Miletus International Literature Magazine, 2019
‘I don’t want to go back’: Miletus International Literature Magazine, 2019
‘Between beauty and decadence’: The Blue Nib, 2019
republished in Fevers of the Mind, 2021
‘My tapestry’: The Blue Nib, 2019
‘The quiet assimilators’: Eureka Street, 2019
republished in Poetry and Settled Status for All: An Anthology, ed. A Musiyiwa (Civic Leicester, UK, 2022)
‘A journey of sorts’: Eureka Street, 2019
republished in Fevers of the Mind, 2021
‘Black box’: The Enchanting Verses Literary Review, 2019
‘Charlie’: Other Terrain Journal, Issue 7, 2019
republished in WordCity Monthly, Issue 5, 2021
republished in To Be Or Not To Be A Writer, Sweetycat Press, 2021
‘A gift for the taking’: Poetica Review, Summer Edition, 2019
republished in Scarlet Leaf Review, 2020
‘I left suitcases’: Pink Cover Zine, Issue 4, 2019
‘A stain the shape of Italy’: The Blue Nib, Issue 37, 2019
republished in Pink Cover Zine (Issue 4), 2019
‘Separateness’: The Blue Nib, Issue 37, 2019
republished in Fevers of the Mind, 2021
‘For my cousin in Faenza’: The Blue Nib, Issue 37, 2019
republished in Mediterranean Poetry, 2020
republished in Scarlet Leaf Review, 2020
‘The passing of things’: The Blue Nib, Issue 37, 2019
‘The flick of a lizard’s tail’: The Blue Nib, Issue 37, 2019
‘Now he is here’: Other Terrain Journal, 2018
‘And the nuns wore lipstick’: New Reader Magazine, 2018
‘Honolulu breakfasts’: New Reader Magazine, 2018
‘I’m lucky’: New Reader Magazine, 2018
‘Pine nuts at lunchtime’: Literary Yard, 2018
republished in Poet’s Corner, InDaily, 2018
republished in Abstract Magazine: Contemporary Expressions, 2019
‘What was’: Literary Yard, 2018
republished in Scarlet Leaf Review, Anniversary Edition, 2018
republished in The Sunlight Press, 2019
republished in Abstract Magazine: Contemporary Expressions, 2019
‘Before the party’: Literary Yard, 2018
republished in The Sunlight Press, 2019
republished in Abstract Magazine: Contemporary Expressions, 2019
republished in The Enchanting Verses Literary Review, 2019
‘Boston uncommon: Literary Yard, 2018
republished in Scarlet Leaf Review, Anniversary Edition, 2018
republished in Poetica, chapbook anthology, Clarendon House Publications, 2019
‘Fifty-five days’: Backstory Journal, 2018
republished in Scarlet Leaf Review, Anniversary Edition, 2018
‘Recalling Sarah’: Empathy (anthology), Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, 2018
republished in Pink Cover Zine (Issue 3), 2018
‘A glut of words’: Scarlet Leaf Review, Anniversary Edition, 2018
republished in Down in the Dirt: Fallen Kingdom (Vol. 162), January–February 2019
‘Someone else’s morning’: Scarlet Leaf Review, Anniversary Edition, 2018
republished in Down in the Dirt: Fallen Kingdom (Vol. 162), January–February 2019
‘Past and future tense’
Selected for the ‘Spirit of Renewal’ Manly Art Gallery and Museum Poetry Alive Reading, 2021
‘Between beauty and decadence’, ‘Love is almond shaped’, ‘My tapestry’, ‘A glut of words’ and ‘Still the rain kept falling’:
translated into Spanish by María Del Castillo Sucerquia and published in Cardenal Revista Literaria (Mexico), 2020
https://cardenalrevista.com/poesia/
‘A stain the shape of Italy’, ‘Earth tremors’, ‘Before the party’, ‘What was’ and ‘Pine nuts at lunchtime’:
translated into Spanish by María Del Castillo Sucerquia and published in Revista Poesía, University of Carabobo (Venezuela), 2021
/http://poesia.uc.edu.ve/denise-ohagan/